"Vivre 1000 ans" – When AI conquers and death retreats

The central question of this episode is deceptively simple: what is the point of living a thousand years if you have nothing useful to do? Laurent Alexandre, a physician and entrepreneur, and Alexandre Csicopoulos, a startup founder and co-author of the book Vivre Mille Ans, argue that humanity stands at a threshold where radical life extension is becoming technically plausible — but the social and psychological consequences are being ignored by politicians, universities, and the public alike. The conversation is organized around a generational fracture: older people fear death, while younger people fear being useless.

The acceleration nobody is ready for

The book's premise rests on a series of concrete promises from leading figures in AI and biotechnology. Elon Musk has predicted life expectancy of 150 to 160 years by 2035. Dario Amodei, creator of Claude and a biologist by training, promises a doubling of life expectancy in less than a decade. Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry 2024 and head of all Google AI, guarantees that between 2035 and 2040, humanity will cure all diseases — every cancer, every neurodegenerative condition. These are not fringe claims; they come from the people building the technology.